Chapter 1 - Introduction

[1]        Budget 2016-17, Budget Measures – Budget Paper No. 2, 3 May 2016, p. 142, http://budget.gov.au/2016-17/content/bp2/html/bp2_expense-21.htm (accessed 19 October 2016).

[2]        Department of Social Services (DSS), Submission 8, p. 4.

[3]        Department of Human Services, Mobility Allowance, https://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelink/mobility-allowance (accessed 19 October 2016).

[4]        Explanatory Memorandum (EM), p. 1.

[5]        EM, p. 1.

[6]        The Bill proposes repealing the current definition of 'handicapped person' in the Social Security Act 1991, Part 2.21, https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2016C00929 (accessed 19 October 2016).

[7]        EM, p. 1.

[8]        Social Security Act 1991, Part 2.21, Division 1, section 1035 (2).

[9]        Social Security Act 1991, Part 2.21, Division 4, section 1046.

[10]      EM, Item 34, p. 4.

[11]      Social Security Act 1991, Part 2.21, Division 3, section 1045.

[12]      EM, Item 26, p. 5.

[13]      EM, p. 2.

[14]      Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (PJCHR), Human rights scrutiny report: report 8 of 2016, 9 November 2016, pp 10 – 11.

[15]      Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, Alert Digest 8/16, 9 November 2016, p. 49

[16]      Journals of the Senate, No. 11–13 October 2016, p. 326.

[17]      Journals of the Senate, No. 16–21 November 2016, p. 494.

[18]      Journals of the Senate, No. 18–23 November 2016, p. 580.

[19]      Senate Standing Committee for Selection of Bills, Report No. 7 of 2016, Appendices 8 and 9.

[20]      See: Community Affairs Legislation Committee, https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/MobilityAllowance (accessed 22 November 2016).

Chapter 2 - Key issues

[1]        The Hon Christian Porter, Minister for Social Services, House of Representatives Hansard, 13 October 2016, p. 7.

[2]        Department of Social Services (DSS), Submission 8, p. 2.

[3]        See: National Welfare Rights Network, Submission 10, p. 5; Combined Pensioners & Superannuants Association of NSW, Submission 2, p. 3; Australian Network on Disability, Submission 4, p. 2; Children and Young People with Disability Australia, Submission 14, p. 6; Australian Blindness Forum, Submission 9, p. 7; People with Disability Australia, Submission 20, p. 9.

[4]        Inclusion Australia, Submission 17, p. 4.

[5]        See: Spinal Cord Injuries Australia, Submission 1, p. 1; Vision Australia, Submission 6, p. 5; Australian Blindness Forum, Submission 9, p. 1; Royal Society for the Blind, Submission 11, p. 1; Blind Citizens WA, Submission 16, p. 1; Blind Citizens Australia, Submission 7, p. 4; Macular Disease Foundation Australia, Submission 13, p. 2; Name withheld, Submission 19, p. 2.

[6]        Blind Citizens Australia, Submission 7, p. 4.

[7]        NCOSS, Submission 3, p. 2; Australian Blindness Forum, Submission 9, p. 1.

[8]        DSS, Submission 8, p. 5.

[9]        DSS, Submission 8, p. 4.

[10]      DSS, Submission 8, p. 5.

[11]      Ms Helen McDevitt, Committee Hansard, 21 November 2016, p. 18.

[12]      See: Vision Australia, Submission 6, p. 5; Australian Blindness Forum, Submission 9, p. 1; Royal Society for the Blind, Submission 11, p. 1; Blind Citizens WA, Submission 16, p. 1; Vision 2020, Submission 21, pp 1–2.

[13]      Mr Bruce Maguire, Vision Australia, Committee Hansard, 21 November 2016, p. 11.

[14]      Blind Citizens Australia, Submission 7, p. 4.

[15]      Vision Australia, Submission 6, p. 3.

[16]      Inclusion Australia, Submission 17, p. 3; Vision Australia, Submission 6, p. 3.

[17]      DSS, Submission 8, p. 4.

[18]      Ms Helen McDevitt, Committee Hansard, 21 November 2016, p. 20.

[19]      NCOSS, Submission 3, p. 3; Queensland Advocacy Incorporated, Submission 12, p. 5; Inclusion Australia, Submission 17, p. 3.

[20]      NCOSS, Submission 3, p. 3.

[21]      VALID, representing people with intellectual disability in Victoria, submitted that evidence from the Barwon NDIS trail site indicates that rates of transport assistance is not appropriate, and that in some case participants 'ran out of their allocated transport budgets within 6 months, pressuring them to either reduce community participation that requires travel or to rely on families and other forms of private transport to meet the gap'. VALID, Submission 18, p. 2. See also: People with Disability Australia, Submission 20, p. 7; People with Disability WA, Submission 15, pp 2–4; Inclusion Australia, Submission 17, p. 7; People with Disability Australia, Submission 20, p. 7

[22]      People with Disability Australia, Submission 20, p. 10.

[23]      Children and Young People with Disability Australia, Submission 14, p. 7; Inclusion Australia, Submission 17, p. 5, VALID, Submission 18, p. 3.

[24]      Ms Helen McDevitt, Committee Hansard, 21 November 2016, pp 20–21.

[25]      Ms Helen McDevitt, Committee Hansard, 21 November 2016, p. 21.

[26]      NCOSS, Submission 3, p. 1; Australian Network on Disability, Submission 4, p. 2; Queensland Advocacy Incorporated, Submission 12, p. 4; Inclusion Australia, Submission 17, p. 4.

[27]      NCOSS, Submission 3, p. 1.

[28]      NCOSS, Submission 3, p. 2; Children and Young People with Disability Australia, Submission 14, pp 6–7; Queensland Advocacy Incorporated, Submission 12, p. 4.

[29]      NDS, Submission 5, p. 1.

[30]      Australian Network on Disability, Submission 4, p. 2.

[31]      The Hon Christian Porter, Minister for Social Services, House of Representatives Hansard, 13 October 2016, p. 7.

[32]      Ms Cath Halbert, Committee Hansard, 21 November 2016, p. 20.

[33]      Ms Cath Halbert, Committee Hansard, 21 November 2016, p. 21.

[34]      DSS, Submission 8, p. 3.

[35]      NCOSS, Submission 3, p. 2; Queensland Advocacy Incorporated, Submission 12, p. 7; Australian Blindness Forum, Submission 9, p. 1; Royal Society for the Blind, Submission 11, p. 2; Inclusion Australia, Submission 17, p. 4; People with Disability Australia, Submission 20, p. 9.

[36]      Vision Australia, Submission 6, p. 4; Australian Blindness Forum, Submission 9, p. 3; Royal Society for the Blind, Submission 11, p. 2; Blind Citizens WA, Submission 16, p. 3.

[37]      Australian Blindness Forum, Submission 9, pp 4–5.

[38]      DSS, Submission 8, p. 2.

[39]      Ms Cath Halbert, Committee Hansard, 21 November 2016, p. 23.

[40]      DSS, Submission 8, p. 3.

[41]      NWRN, Submission 10, p. 6.

[42]      NWRN, Submission 10, p. 6.

[43]      DSS, Submission 8, p. 3.

[44]      DSS, Submission 8, p. 3.

Labor Senators' Dissenting Report

[1]        People with Disability Australia, Submission 20.

[2]        Blind Citizens Australia, Submission 7; Blind Citizens Western Australia, Submission 16; Macular Disease Foundation Australia, Submission 13.

[3]        Inclusion Australia, Submission 17.

[4]        Queensland Advocacy Incorporated, Submission 12.  

[5]        New South Wales Council of Social Service, Submission 3.

Australian Greens Senators' Dissenting Report

[1]        NSW Council of Social Services, Submission 3, p. 2.

[2]        National Welfare Rights Network, Submission 10, p.5.

[3]        Children and Young People with Disability Australia, Submission 14, p. 6.

[4]        Vision Australia, Submission 2, p. 2.

[5]        Vision Australia, Submission 2, p. 3.

[6]        Vision Australia, Submission 2, p. 3.

[7]        Australian Blindness Forum, Submission 9, p. 4.

[8]        Vision Australia, Submission 2, p. 5.

[9]        People With Disabilities (WA) Inc., Submission 15, p. 3.

[10]      Children and Young People with Disability Australia, Submission 14, p. 7.

[11]      People With Disabilities (WA) Inc., Submission 15, p. 3.

[12]      Children and Young People with Disability Australia, Submission 14, p. 7.

[13]      National Welfare Rights Network, Submission 10, pp 5-6.

[14]      NSW Council of Social Services, Submission 3, p. 1.

[15]      Department of Social Services, Answer to Hearing Question on Notice No. 4; Department of Social Services, Answer to Hearing Question on Notice No. 6.

[16]      Children and Young People with Disability Australia, Submission 14, pp 6-7.

[17]      Queensland Advocacy Incorporated, Submission 12, p. 4.

[18]      National Welfare Rights Network, Submission 10, p. 5.

[19]      People with Disability Australia, Submission 20, p. 9.

[20]      Vision Australia, Submission 2, p. 4.

[21]      NSW Council of Social Services, Submission 3, p. 2.

[22]      Department of Social Services, Submission 8, p. 2.

[23]      Department of Social Services, Answer to Hearing Question on Notice No. 8.

[24]      National Welfare Rights Network, Submission 10, p.6.